Rumblings that Roy Moore could run for the Senate again, Donald Trump Jr. warns against it.

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Roy Moore, who lost a safe GOP seat in Alabama to Democrat Doug Jones, may be running again for the senate seat in 2020. Politico. Donald Trump Jr. blasted Moore on Twitter saying he was the only candidate that could lose against a Democrat in Alabama. Moore ran an insurgent campaign against President Trump's endorsed candidate, Luther Strange, but lost a special election after accusations of inappropriate conduct with teenage girls surfaced. Moore has been making waves by criticizing some of the other Republicans running for the seat, including Representative Bradly Byrne. Doug Jones is one of the most vulnerable Senators in 2020 and if defeated could protect the GOP's majority in the Senate.  

You mean like last time? You’re literally the only candidate who could lose a GOP seat in pro-Trump, pro-USA ALABAMA. Running for office should never become a business model. If you actually care about #MAGA more than your own ego, it's time to ride off into the sunset, Judge. https://t.co/Twg9isFRkY

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 28, 2019

My Comment:
I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand I always thought that the accusations against Roy Moore were an obvious political hitjob. The accusations against him were either laughable, unproven or acceptable at the time he did them. It was fairly obvious that the media and the Democrats teamed up to bash Moore when he really didn't deserve it.

That being said, I also think that Moore has no business running, even back then. Even if the accusations against him are false, he was never a good candidate in the first place. He was fairly controversial even outside the accusations against him, being a religious zealot and not very mainstream.

He has even less of an argument today. He managed to lose one of the safest senate seats in the country, by a slim margin yes, but still. He's a proven loser and the GOP would have been better off if he hadn't ran and Luther Strange (or Mo Brooks, the also ran in the race) had been the candidate.

The whole situation reminds me of Arizona where another damaged candidate screwed up the race. I am, of course, talking about Sheriff Joe Arpiao. Arpaio was about as damaged as Roy Moore is and I still think he's a major reason why Kyrsten Sinema is now the junior senator of Arizona instead of Martha McSally. Arpaio entering the race, even though he was defeated, divided Republicans and may have given Sinema the edge in the race. So even if Moore is defeated he still might screw the GOP out of a Senate pickup in 2020.

My sincere hope is that Roy Moore just takes one for the team and doesn't run in 2020. The GOP doesn't need him but does need to take back Jeff Session's old seat. Doing so would help protect the Senate majority and makes sure that, at the very least, they would keep one of the houses of power in the United States.

Finally, I have to say that this whole thing could have avoided if President Trump had not hired Jeff Sessions. If he hadn't Sessions would have remained an ally in the Senate and would have kept a very safe seat probably for quite some time. Given his terrible performance as Attorney General, and the fact that he didn't nip the Russia hysteria in the bud and the fact that his seat was lost for basically no reason makes me think that he was by far the worst mistake President Trump made.